What is it with new cars?? Are new cars equipped to 'beep' continuously and loud until you buckle your seat belt? The Boxster used to BEEP so loud that I always put on my seat belt. The E350 beeps softer but it is annoying to keep hearing it 'beep'
Yes, I know seat belts are meant for safety. In all honesty, I just don't wear one. It is not habit, I don't like it. I just feel restricted wearing it and I feel safter NOT wearing it. It really is subcounscious. I don't think, 'LOOK no seat belt!!!' I just get in, start the car, drive away and then maybe realize, "Oh, no seat belt."
I think on the next car I look to buy, the seat belt reminder has to go off after 10 seconds or I am not buying the car!!
3 comments:
Miles,
I used to drive around without wearing the seatbelt also, until Howard told me about all the horror stories in the emergency room. I now am a believer and wear my seatbelt all the time. But think of this. If you get in a car accident and die, which probably could be prevented with wearing a seatbelt, all that money that you've saved up will go to Aya and her new younger, studly boyfriend who will be driving a new boxster bought with your money. Can you live with that thought!?! More importantly, don't you owe it to your baby to wear your seat belt? As they say in Hawaii, "Click it or ticket!"
tom-
actually, i try to wear my seat belt. it just isn't a habit. i have been on the other side where i have friends who have survived bad crashes because they were not wearing a seat belt.
i told aya if i die, i hope she remarries. the new husband just can't use my stuff.
In a car crash where stopping distance is one foot, force on a driver wearing a seatbelt is 30 g's. Driver without a seatbelt feels 150 g's. Ouch.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/seatb.html#cc3
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